Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

[BillyCarpenter]

Yesterday a lady brought in a Asus E200HA laptop and said she wanted to bring it back to default settings. After a brief conversation, what she really wanted was a clean laptop with no files/data. I figured this would be a simple job. I installed windows 10. But then the track pad wasn't working. It was obvious that I need to install all the drivers that were missing. I went to ASUS website and downloaded the drivers needed. However, they wouldn't install. I keep getting some error message. I'm not sure what was going on. Finally out of desperation, I downloaded a free program called: Driver Easy. It installed all the needed drivers and the track pad is working again. Very confusing.

It bugs me when I can't figure these problems out.

[slimslob]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

So how much did it cost her to have you reinstall a 5 year old, based on the earliest review I could find, approximately $200.00 original retail laptop?

[tsbservice]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

So how much did it cost her to have you reinstall a 5 year old, based on the earliest review I could find, approximately $200.00 original retail laptop?

Lol, didn't realized it until now.
This machine needs Linux to breath like asthmatic.

[slimslob]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

Lol, didn't realized it until now.
This machine needs Linux to breath like asthmatic.

Some of the reviewers mentioned that open more than 2 applications or 3 tabs in Edge and it really slowed down.

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

I charged her $85.00. She just picked it up and dropped off 2 more laptops that are older than the first one.

[Lance15]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

One of our best customers is like that. We're good friends and I help him from time to time. He picks up machines from yard sales and if he can't get them going, I give him a hand. No charge.

[KenB]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

Yesterday a lady brought in a Asus E200HA laptop and said she wanted to bring it back to default settings. After a brief conversation, what she really wanted was a clean laptop with no files/data. I figured this would be a simple job. I installed windows 10. But then the track pad wasn't working. It was obvious that I need to install all the drivers that were missing. I went to ASUS website and downloaded the drivers needed. However, they wouldn't install. I keep getting some error message. I'm not sure what was going on. Finally out of desperation, I downloaded a free program called: Driver Easy. It installed all the needed drivers and the track pad is working again. Very confusing.

It bugs me when I can't figure these problems out.

What bugs me even more was that a 3rd party unknown app rendered the solution.

[slimslob]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

What bugs me even more was that a 3rd party unknown app rendered the solution.

I agree, Driver Easy is one of the online driver site that I tended to avoid in the past. Maybe they no longer require you to download their app. Nor do I trust site that offer drivers in Win RAR format.

[rthonpm]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

So how much did it cost her to have you reinstall a 5 year old, based on the earliest review I could find, approximately $200.00 original retail laptop?

This is one reason I got out of doing personal computer service and focused on business. The amount of absolute crap computers that are sold to consumers is criminal.

At this point, it's nearly been a decade since I've even seen a Home version of Windows.

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[BillyCarpenter]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

This is one reason I got out of doing personal computer service and focused on business. The amount of absolute crap computers that are sold to consumers is criminal.

At this point, it's nearly been a decade since I've even seen a Home version of Windows.

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Yep and there's a lot of crap printers that are sold to consumers. Especially the inkjet variety. I try to educate these folks but I've found most of the time they're just interested in buying something that's cheap.

[slimslob]

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Yep and there's a lot of crap printers that are sold to consumers. Especially the inkjet variety. I try to educate these folks but I've found most of the time they're just interested in buying something that's cheap.

I had an account at one time who was a bankruptcy attorney. I worked on his phone system, Gestetner/Lanier/Ricoh mfps and had installed a Novel network. He was also a licensed wholesaler for Lexmark inkjets printers. He could get a new printer for less than a set of replacement ink cartridges, so had a number of new ones waiting for when one needed ink. Donated the old ones to charities.

[techsxge]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

I agree, Driver Easy is one of the online driver site that I tended to avoid in the past. Maybe they no longer require you to download their app. Nor do I trust site that offer drivers in Win RAR format.

I've used IObit to update drivers for quite some time before we started selling the same hardware over and over so i just had to update 1 usb drive with all drivers to install

[techsxge]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

Yep and there's a lot of crap printers that are sold to consumers. Especially the inkjet variety. I try to educate these folks but I've found most of the time they're just interested in buying something that's cheap.

I've had a bet running with multiple peoples that they will pay more in 5 years for their inkjets than they would for one konica printer. I've won every single one of them bets and earned myself 7 beers and 7 new customers in print business that way

[tonerhead]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

Just curious with the Asus. Couldn't you just do a windows reset? I thought it is built into any W10 computer, or was this an upgrade to W10?

Give your PC a Fresh Start - Microsoft Support

[rthonpm]

Re: Asus laptop reinstall windows 10

Just curious with the Asus. Couldn't you just do a windows reset? I thought it is built into any W10 computer, or was this an upgrade to W10?

Give your PC a Fresh Start - Microsoft Support

I'm also surprised that Asus doesn't have an application available that will install the drivers. Then again, that may just be a business class machine thing like Dell Command Update or Lenovo Commercial Vantage that these garbage machines never get a chance to see. There probably also hasn't been an update for any driver or BIOS since that machine left the factory.